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Please forgive me, it's been over 40+ years since I've played D&D and just now trying to reboot the changes. Can someone briefly explain Perception check math?
Assume I'm a 5 year old or an idiot, whichever comes first in your mind.
If a character has a Wisdom of 10 and the DM says "roll a Pe...

just got back from watching Captain Marvel a little while ago. it was pretty good. some twists I expected and some I didn't - overall a quite enjoyable movie. (and a funny tie-in to another movie... not Endgame, a previous one :P)

@kviiri My PC opened a nondescript closet after checking for traps. BBEG was hiding inside (despite in-game knowledge that BBEG should be elsewhere), immediately tries to disintegrate the PC.

We're late in the game, and before rolling, I ask what happens if I fail, because we don't have magic to undo disintegrate. GM doesn't want to bother with new characters, therefore a low roll means being kicked, basically.

@BESW In all seriousness, I think the concept of Goblin dice is useful to know and since it hasn't been discussed here in an awfully long time, I think it's apt that the concept gets thrown around a bit so everyone can learn about it

@BESW TBH this particular group and DM have been frustrating me for a while, often with "game mechanics before fun" style of play. But it's a learning experience. The more I observe, the more I learn what to avoid.

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My project manager at my current customer has a delightful group of friends with whom she's been hanging out regularly since their school years. She also said they used to schedule their meetings, leading them to meeting about once every six months if they were lucky

When they started just deciding on the date, they've met each other far more regularly.

I made a tag for a game system, then I found that it has been referred to another, potentially very misleading tag, and I think should be replaced, and it's only present on two questions only, should I rise a meta, or just edit two questions with an edit comment explaining why I'm replacing it?

(There's a total of three questions, one where I added the tag, two that used another, misleading tag.)

(Please @ me if/when you answer, because I may go offline and/or AFK any moment today.)

@MikeQ I don't know how long this campaign has been going but I suspect it might be a slow game like D&D, with a "we're approaching the finale" movie feeling, where it happens that someone gets taken out of the equation but the heroes keep pushing. The problem being this is not a movie.

Today I saw a Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game question (or rather, question spanning both GURPS and DFRPG), and decided to add the latter tag to it, started typing dungeon-fantasy-roleplaying..., didn't see an autocomplete, realised it's too long, added dfrpg instead because that's how the commu...

@MikeQ if you had been disentegrated, would the DM have had you play the monsters until the climax? Being tossed from the group on a die roll like that (with the "doesn't want to roll up new chars" bit) not even an old school feel. (We usually found a way for another PC to be rescued / found when stuff like that happened ... but I guess that varies by table).

I faintly remember of a D&D 3.5 book, but I can not really remember its title. The book had a lovecraftian flavor, it was official and it was about old gods and monsters, that existed in the background, and the DM could create whole campaigns about them.
It usually proposed events to happen in t...

This enormous greatsword appears to be composed of crystal and ice, and it’s handle is made of horn. It’s always wrapped in a magic silken cloth. When the attuned creature wields the weapon, they can mentally command the cloth to uncover the blade, then the cloth floats towards the shoulders and arms of the owner and twists itself there, floating but not touching it’s master. While the cloth floats in this way it’s wearer is immune to cold damage and resistant to fire damage.

The sword itself has a +1 attack bonus, and adds 1d4 cold damage when it hits. When you roll a 6 on a d6 or a 4 on a d4 on a damage roll with this weapon, you can inmediatelly roll again a dice of the same kind and add it to the total. Furthermore, when a critical hit lands on a creature, this must roll a DC 15 Constitution save. On a failure, the creature suffers 3d6 cold damage and its covered in ice crystals, paralizing it. The creature can repeat the save at the end of it’s turns. If it succeeds damage is halved and it’s not paralized.

If an unattuned creature tries to move the weapon, it needs to succeed on a DC 12 Strength check to even be able to raise it. Trying to wield it for combat requires a DC 17 Strength check for every attack. When an unattuned creature wields the sword, the magic cloth covering it dampens the damage, that becomes 1d6 Bludgeoning, and damages the wielder 1d4 cold damage every turn it tries to do so.

Allegedly, they won't put their grubby hands on this item. They are gonna fight a mindflayer-slaved silver dragon, to free it and ask for it's help. If they succeed (i hope for their character's well beings that they do), the silver will adopt a Goliath shape and wield this in battle against the illithid great mind.

Just as a thought, exploding dice is really fun but honestly moreso for PC features than NPC. I think it is a fun idea, but I don't think I would add it to a DM weapon because 1) it adds more power and unpredictability 2) more rolling = more time and no way to average it when accounting for exploding

hmmm as a PC ally that does change things a bit

Still that is going to end up being a lot of rolling for a single attack

I played a lot of Anima RPG back in the day, all dice are exploding dice there ( 90 on a d100 or more explodes. Then 91 or more, then 92... etc, until you only explode on a 100)

great shenanigans happened with that

and I'm late to my own game. Let's see if they manage to free the dragon first, or all of this will have been for nothing... And I hope they don't try to kill it, just free it... Adult dragons on a lvl 9 party is overkill :P

I'm running a premade campaign which states that all the rooms are filled with a gas that makes the whole area lightly obscured (disadvantage on Perception checks).
A character with darkvision without light, treats areas of mundane darkness as dim light. Dim light counts as lightly obscured as w...

So, the penalties that are applied when two characters are in darkness, attacking each other, are perfectly clear in the Pathfinder rules:
In an area of dim light, a character can see somewhat. Creatures within this area have concealment (20% miss chance in combat) from those without darkvisi...